No time for fear : voices of American military nurses in World War II / / Diane Burke Fessler

• Autore: Fessler Diane Burke
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 1996; ©1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.54/7573
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945 - Medical care - United States; World War, 1939-1945; Nurses - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Armed Forces Nurses Biography
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword (Senator Daniel K. Inouye); Foreword (Colonel M. Irene Clark Woodman); Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; 1. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: ""Like rats in a trap.""; 2. Pacific Theater of War: ""You can see what men are made of when you get them freshly wounded.""; 3. Japanese Internment Camps, Philippines: ""You don't know what freedom is until you lose it."" ; 4. China, Burma, and India: ""Culture Shock"" ; 5. North Africa, Sicily, and Italy: ""90 mm shells would zoom right over the hospital."" ; 6. England: ""Buzz bombs, blackouts, and barrage balloons"" ; 7. France: ""Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge""8. Germany: ""V-E Day"" ; 9. Russia: ""The Eastern Command""; 10. The 166th General Hospital: ""Raining again""; 11. Snap Shots: ""You never know what will happen when you join the service."" ; 12. The War Ends: ""I can't express how I felt when I heard it was over."" ; Further Reading; Index
• Titolo autorizzato: No time for fear
• ISBN: 1-60917-027-X; 0-585-27799-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817689603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II